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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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Diane Winston

Diane Winston is RD's director. She holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at USC's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, and has worked as a reporter for several of the nation’s leading newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, Dallas Times Herald and The News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (1999) and co-editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture (2002). 

Archive, StoriesJanuary 2, 2018

Moving Day: A Note from the Publisher

By Diane Winston

Editor’s note: As a number of readers have written to express confusion over the future…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveMay 22, 2017

 A Pence Presidency Would Give Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Vision a Run for its Money

By Diane Winston

Talkin’ ’bout my generation.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawFebruary 2, 2017

“Under God…It’s a Great Thing”: Trump Delivers for His Christian Base

By Diane Winston

The heart of Trump’s speech was a defense of “religious liberty” that sounded a lot like protecting Christian—and specifically evangelical—lives and values.

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawNovember 9, 2016

Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

Religious people don’t vote based on a candidate’s support of the Ten Commandments; they support candidates who promise to inch the world closer to their own vision of what should be.

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Archive, StoriesDecember 29, 2014

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

I went to India searching for spiritual enlightenment. I found a neoliberal heaven that catered…

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OMFGSeptember 24, 2014

More Religion in Politics? New Poll’s Findings May Be Overhyped

By Diane Winston

A day after headlines heralding Americans’ desire for more religion in politics and public life,…

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Archive, Culture, Politics/Law, StoriesFebruary 17, 2014

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

We—especially those in academia and the media—have written off religion as divisive, outmoded and irrelevant just as we have trivialized spirituality as frivolous self-indulgence. As a result, our politics are soulless and our candidates’ calls for hope fail to translate into change.

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ArchiveDecember 12, 2013

Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

By Diane Winston

 FDR is held responsible for many things, but no one has linked his legacy to the recent threat of a government shutdown. 

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Politics/LawJune 3, 2013

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

Why was Israeli media so soft-focus in its coverage of the event?

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UncategorizedMay 30, 2013

Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

What planet are they on?

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